Improvement in device for steaming rovtngs



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waited @Sintra @wat @Mire- SOLOMON BARBER, OF SOUTH COVENTRY, CONNECTICUT.

Letters Patent No. 95,413, dated October 5,1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN DEVICE Eon STEAMING ROvINGs.

The Schedule referred to in these Lettera Patent md making part of the same.

v wool ormcotton wHle`on-their-way from the rolls to the t'ylndersor the purpose of uniformly warming and moistening the strands.

I To enable those skilled in the artto make and usel my invention, I now proceed to describe its construction and operation.

Similar letters in the drawings refer to like parts'.

In the drawings- A represents rolls, on which are Wound woollen or cotton strands or roving, which rolls rest'. upon wooden cylinders, B B, suitably mounted in standards, D, which cylinders, by friction, rotate the rolls, all in a well-known manner.

The roving passesfrom the roll A between small On its way to the eed rollers, I pass it through a reservoir, C, containing steam of uniform density, supplied to the reservoir through a stop-cock at its bottom. The reservoir is open at the top, but is supplied with a damper, d, inside and near the top, of a size to close the orifice when shut down, and operated by means of a handle, d', projecting from one extremity of the damper throughthe end of the reservoir, and bent so as to extend by the side of a semiciroular plate, e, attached to the side of the reservoir, and provided with a row ofholes, into either of which a pin may be placed so as to keep the handle and damper in any required position.

Upon the top of the reservoir`- is placed peaked roof, E, the space between the lower edges of the roof and the top of the reservoir being left open so as to admit of thepassage of the roving. space the roving receives the steam, which afterward passes Ofi' at the open sides. .It is to'be noticed that the steam is in a diused condition whu it comes in contact with the roving, and herein is the essence of my invention.

I am well aware that it is no new thing to'appiy l steam to roving, in the form of jets, from a perforated pipe passing close under the strand, but I consider I this method inferior to mine, in that it does not moisten thestrandsuniformly, leaving them less wet on the upper than ou the lower sides, and, unless the jets are very close together, leaving dry spots between them.

By 'my method the roving is moistened with perfeet uniformity, rendering it extremely pliable, and

capable of being drawn o'ut very fine, and dispensing with the use of Oil, thus eiecting a considerable saving.

My arrangement of the roof AE is quite useful, as itJ serves to retain heat and deflect the body of steam just where it is needed. Inside the roof, and at its lower edges, are longitudinal glitters, h h., into which the moisture condensed upon the roof trickles down, and from which it escapes through gutters h h' and a spout, It, into-the reservoir, which is provided with al1 outlet for it.

What I claim as\new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is- A The reservoir C and damper D, combined with `the inclined'roofed chamber E through which the roving passes, the roof deflecting the steam on the roving,

substantially as described.

SOLOMON BARBER,

Witnesses:

1t, B. WILSON, SAMUEL WILSON.

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